With SIBERIAN EXILES, photographer Claudia Heinermann shows a part of European history that is hardly known in Western Europe: the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. Between 1941 and 1991, the population of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania faced mass deportations, executions and repression. Collective traumas that have left deep scars on the population.

In three parts, eyewitnesses tell about the deportation of women and children to remote areas in Siberia, life in the Gulag camps, the organized resistance against the Soviet occupier and the beginning of the Cold War.